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Elaine Showalter (b. 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and cultural commentator who pioneered feminist literary criticism in the U.S. with her concept of gynocritics, focusing on women as writers. A specialist in Victorian literature, she has explored themes like madness and hysteria in women’s writing. Showalter’s works include The Female Malady and Sexual Anarchy. She has been a television critic for People magazine and a BBC commentator, earning honors like the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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